A Dozen Red Roses Split Up: Contemporary Arrangements

Don brings home roses most every Erev Shabbos (Shabbos eve). I try to find different ways to arrange the roses every Friday so that the Shabbos table setup is unique. As you know, most recently, I have begun to break the dozen roses up into several arrangements. I love the flexibility of moving the arrangements into different rooms and setting them up differently for each part of Shabbos.

Before I arranged the roses, I took my pruning shears out to the backyard. I snipped some Dusty Miller to use for my grid-like vase. I snipped some branches off one of the magnolia trees to use in the largest arrangement. I re-purposed some leaves from an older arrangement to use in the bud vase. And so, I arranged the roses in three different vases…

For Friday night, I placed all three arrangements on the table. For Shabbos lunch, I placed the largest arrangement on the Shabbos table and moved the other two arrangements into the kitchen. And, so it goes…..